Guest blog by Angela Ni, Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011, Yunnan, China (angela.ni@fulbrightmail.org) When I first met Doctor Zhang he was sitting behind his…
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General Balancing China’s basic rural health needs—perspectives from public health practitionersRead more
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General Rinderpest: the puzzling story of a plague that is no longer a news storyRead more
Last week, to surprisingly little coverage, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) officially announced that rinderpest had become the first animal…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Alcohol industry; Flu vaccines & premature births; threshold hemoglobin values & moreRead more
Closing out May with a big publishing week, PLoS Medicine released five new articles this week, including our editorial and the continuation…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: H1N1 response in Mexico; Med students & pharma marketing; Migration & HealthRead more
This week, PLoS Medicine published four new articles, including the beginning of our six-part series on Migration and Health. Gerardo Chowell and…
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General WHO steps up and addresses the issue of attacks on health workers and facilitiesRead more
Guest post by Leonard Rubenstein and Katherine Footer. The consternation of the international community in response to attacks on health workers, patients…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Stroke outcomes; Gestational diabetes; Cervical cancer preventionRead more
Three new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, with two new research articles, one featuring translated abstracts, and an update…
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Conference news HIFA2015 Conference: lack of access to healthcare information is lethalRead more
Earlier this week I attended the first Conference of the HIFA2015 campaign at the BMA in London. In true reflection of the…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Snakebites in Sri Lanka; post-MDG global health agreementsRead more
This week in PLoS Medicine, two new articles were published on snakebite treatment and global health policy commitments: In a factorial randomized…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Aripiprazole & bipolar disorder; Meta-analyses of Adverse Effects; cART & moreRead more
Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including three research articles: A systematic search of the literature reveals limited…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Torture at Guantánamo Bay; MSF in HaitiRead more
April closes in PLoS Medicine with an editorial relating to a new article on a GTMO case study, and a reflection on…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Rotavirus vaccines in Brazil; Exercise for Chilean elderly; IHR and antimicrobial resistanceRead more
Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including a Perspective on a research article. A time series analysis by…
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General Tackling the Global Epidemic of Non-Communicable DiseasesRead more
Guest student blog by Fiona Rae, third year medical student at the University of Edinburgh [fionaelizabethrae@gmail.com]. In September 2011 the issue of…